“I don’t support this nonsense! » John Maus didn’t know how else to say it. Since he was filmed on January 6, 2021, at a pro-Trump demonstration that turned into a riot and culminated in the storming of the Capitol in Washington, the American musician has been trying to escape the label that has been quite heavy for him to bear. The presence of this right-wing activist and conspiracy theorist surprised many of his fans. When asked on Twitter at the time, he responded in his own way, cryptically, by citing Pope Pius XI’s 1937 encyclical condemning National Socialist ideology. Misunderstood, the musician saw part of his audience turn away from him.
“It seems I’m not clear enough, because there are still many people in cyberspace who think I’m a Nazi, and many other things.”he said, Friday 14 November, a few hours before the concert in Lille. He repeated to anyone who would listen that, that day, near the Capitol, he was following his friend Alex Lee Moyer who was filming a documentary there, nothing more. “I am absolutely against Trumpism, I have always been close to the post-Marxist French and Italian left, I thought that was obvious… it wasn’t”he justified himself today, a little nervously.
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